Crazy Hair Day |
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/01/13 17:22 英语辅导报 |
亨利先生的趣事层出不穷,他所执教的学校大约每个月都有一个特殊的节日---"疯狂毛发日"。旨在让学生保持好心情,很少有教职员工与学生一道疯狂的,可是亨利却是个例外,这一天到来了,他的新花样是什么呢? I could go on for weeks about all the hilarious things that have happened in his classes,but I will try to pick out a few key things that he did to make all his students just love him. From the inside,Mr.Henry seemed very much like one of my"wacko"teachers,but I don't think it is fair to classify him only as such.From his actions,Mr.Henry was definitely a little strange. He was the one that would go out of his way to try and entertain his students.I remember a specific occasion that will show you what I mean.Mr.Henry liked to grow his must ache and beard during the winter and shave it off later in the spring.He had a full beard that,by winter time,could be pretty thick.Each year,after he shaved it, all the students give him a hard time because he just looked so different after shaving it.Just as spring came in my eighth grade year,Mr.Henry came up with a scheme that was certainly not very ordinary. My junior high had a"crazy"day every month or so."Crazy"day was just a little thing that the school administrators thought up of to try and keep the students happy.Basically every month or so,you would have a new crazy thing to do.For example,one month we would have a"crazy"hat day,when everyone was allowed to wear a hat of his or her choice(that had to be under certain guidelines so that no one came in with a hat with a naked person on it or an add for beer or a KKK hat).The hats could be of any design and shape ,it was meant for the students to have fun.Then there was"crazy"pants day;"crazy"shoes day,and so on. One day in that particular month,it was announced that in a week we would have"crazy"hair day.The only rule was whatever you did to your hair,had to be done in a way that you could fix by the next day.So,if you colored your hair purple,you had to wash out the color by the next day.Some people chose to get some new haircuts and what not,but I really didn't see anything as inventive as what Mr.Henry did. These days were basically for the students.It is meant to give the students a little variety in their boring day-by-day schedule. Very few if any teachers did anything for these"crazy"days.Mr.Henry heard this and decided that he should do something.At this time his beard was quite thick and it was about time to shave it off.Everyone was just thinking that he would shave it all off by the next week and came in with no beard.I knew that Mr.Henry was going to do something and that something was going to be a little more than just shaving it off, but I really couldn't guess what it was.He was a very wacky guy.It would be like trying to guess the next joke of a comedian. When I came in on"crazy hair"day,I saw that only some of the kids had done something and most of it wasn't very radical.Some people came with their hair colored bright blond or a new cut,but nothing really eye catching. Then I walked to Mr.Henry's class.I didn't think I could ever describe the scene in his class with any human-made language. There was just something there that was not meant to be retold,because seeing it was the only way that you could serve the occasion justice.I walked in and saw the entire class seated in their seats all staring at the corner of the room,where Mr.Henry's desk was.I took about two steps to the room and just stopped as I saw Mr.Henry at his desk,reading a book.Have you ever seen anything that made you look twice? Something you saw initially,but then your mind tells you it couldn't have been real?I took another look. I blinked hard and half-looked half stared at the corner and scrutinized(细察) what I saw.I saw Mr.Henry sitting at his desk staring with an amazingly straight face at a book.Everything was perfectly normal except for the fact that he had shaved the bottom left half of his beard off and the top right half of his must ache off...So what he had was half of a mustache on one side and half of a beard on the other.But that wasn't it...that was just the beginning.He had a suit and a tie on,but to just add to the general aura(气氛)of disorder he was wearing a pair of bright blue and orange sweat pants that were striped like a tiger, and two different socks and a mismatched pair of shoes. It was a very interesting scene as the bell rang. Mr.Henry got up and asked half of the room to stop staring at him and sat down.He started to conduct class as if nothing was different and all we could do was just keep blinking and doubting that this was happening. In the class,all that could be heard was Mr.Henry teaching away.After a couple of minutes,minute giggles and muffled laughs could be heard.Finally about five minutes before the class,everyone almost simultaneously started to laugh out loud.Mr.Henry couldn't hold it any more and he started laughing too. For the rest of the day,everyone kept saying to each other. "Did you see Mr.Henry?" "Oh my God!I almost fainted when I saw him the first time!" "I think I've laughed so much I can't eat dinner." And once again Mr.Henry showed me his ability to bring a smile to my face. (文/河北和宝君;英语通高中一年级版2003年第11期;版权归英语辅导报社所有,独家网络合作伙伴新浪教育,未经许可,不得以任何形式进行转载。) |
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